Just finished buying all the things we need, our bags are nearly packed, and...

Well we just finished buying all the things we need for our trip to Africa, our bags are nearly packed and we couldn't be more excited to leave on Thursday... so if you know us, you know what that means! Appendectomy!

To make a very long story short, Kristin and I ended up in the emergency room last night with her having some very extreme stomach pain. After waiting hours in the waiting room with all manner of homeless and mentally ill individuals, we finally got in to see a doctor. After a few hours of exams from multiple doctors, as well as a CT scan, they determined that her appendix needed to be removed ASAP.

Kristin, making her best sad face.

This was at about 2:00 AM, so we spent the next few hours at the hospital and Kristin had surgery this morning at about 6:30 AM. It went quickly and well, and you can hardly see the incisions. She's recovering now and doing great. She should be released tomorrow and we'll head home and try to sort out our trip to Africa... We'll keep you up to date.

every saturday..

every saturday in chicago should be 50 degrees and you should go to brunch at Ann Sathers with people like Dan, Mary, Scott and Nick and then go to the thrift store and find dozens of pink swirl Fire King teacups and the perfect yellow vase. The Aveda spa and then taking your puppy to the park where he gets incredibly muddy...come home to watch some quality shows waiting for you on tivo before going over to a new friends house for a home-made dinner and drinks!

*minus your puppy (and for Nick, also your wife) standing on the ledge of your neighbors ungated 40th floor ledge...

" the silly volunteers were scared..."

While reading and looking at the pictures in the December newsletter from the Daktari Bush School and Animal Orphanage, I couldn't help but notice a little tid-bit about how they found a Black Mamba in the Volunteer Chalet but "it was only a few meters long...and the silly volunteers were scared..." heelp me rhonda!

The Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), is an elapid snake and is one of Africa's most dangerous and feared snakes. It has a wide range of known locations throughout Africa. The black mamba is native to Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Botswana, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and the Congo. They inhabit a wide variety of areas that include open savannahs, open woodlands, and rocky outcrops.^[1] It is also known for being very aggressive when disturbed or confronted and will not hesitate to strike with deadly precision.

The black mamba is the largest venomous snake in Africa and the second longest venomous snake in the world. Adult black mambas have an average length of 2.5 meters (8.2 ft) and a maximum length of 4.5 meters (~14 ft).^[2] Like all other reptiles, the black mamba relies on external heat to regulate the temperature of its body.^[1] Of the venomous snakes of the world, only the King Cobra is longer. ^[3]

When warding off a bigger threat or feeling very threatened, the black mamba usually delivers multiple strikes, injecting its potent neuro- and cardiotoxin with each strike, often attacking the body or head, unlike most other snakes. It can strike up to 12 times in a row. A single bite from a black mamba can inject enough venom to kill up to 10-25 grown men, easily killing one unless the appropriate anti-venom is administered in time.

source wikipedia

Stop Palin!

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dreams do come true...

because we now own a Dyson vacuum!

well and the part where I married the man of my dreams, have the cutest puppy, and am going to Africa in 3 weeks....this post is SO seriously so blessed!

already..?

I am going to assume that the three wrinkles on my forehead are due to celiac disease; because I wear sunscreen daily, a hat at the beach, use organic paraben free products and my mother doesn't have one crack! ....and it couldn't be that I have been working at a place with horrible management for almost a year where 3 year olds tell me to kill myself when I ask them to open their workbook and today when I told a boy he would get a new workbook tomorrow he said "and then I will punch you in the face..."

no words..

in the older 2's class at snack time

Me"who is our new president?"

2.5 year old boy " BLACK OBAMA" 

2.5 year old girl then says "Obama is my present!"   

different 2.5 yr boy "NO Obama is my present!"

girl "No Obama is my present"

I told them he is our new President and offered them more crackers and they moved on to somethng else!

minutes later in the 3's class at snack time

me " childs name do you know who our new President is?"

3 yr old girl " Barack Obama.... he is going to take all of our money away and give it to other people."

me..........

different 3.5 yr old girl " he is going to take all of mommy and daddys money away and then they can't pay the man at church"

her twin sister "the man at church with the basket that you put money in, mommy and daddy won"t have any money to put in it is cause Obama is going to take it and give it to all the other people and then i will be sad"

me.........."girls name where are your socks?"

2nd twin nervously "Obama is going to take our socks"

I am pretty close with the twin's parents and doubted that they said all of this so I told the Dad what they said at the end of the day; he had to sit down.  We figure the girls took what they heard from the first girl and the last time they saw money being putting it in the collection basket at church on Sunday and put it all together...oy vey!